Bill S-217 (Historical)

An Act to amend the Criminal Code (detention in custody)

This bill is from the 42nd Parliament, 1st session, which ended in September 2019.

Status

Dead, as of June 14, 2017
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Criminal Code to
(a) expand the grounds for the justification of detention in custody; and
(b) require that, in any proceeding under section 515, the prosecutor lead evidence to prove the fact that the accused has failed to appear in court when required to do so and the fact that the accused has previously been convicted of a criminal offence or has been charged with and is awaiting trial for another criminal offence.

Similar bills

C-686 (41st Parliament, 2nd session) Detention in Custody Act (Dave Wynn's Law)

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other S-217s:

S-217 (2021) Frozen Assets Repurposing Act
S-217 (2020) An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (successive contracts for services)
S-217 (2020) Commissioner for Children and Young Persons in Canada Act
S-217 (2014) Boards of Directors Modernization Act

Votes

June 14, 2017 Passed 11th Report of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights
March 8, 2017 Passed That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.

Criminal CodeRoutine Proceedings

October 24th, 2016 / 3:05 p.m.

Conservative

Michael Cooper Conservative St. Albert—Edmonton, AB

moved that Bill S-217, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (detention in custody), be read the first time.

Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to rise in this House to introduce Bill S-217, an act to amend the Criminal Code (detention in custody), also known as Wynn's law, which last week passed the Senate by a very wide margin.

In December 2015, Constable David Wynn was shot and killed in St. Albert by an individual who was out on bail, notwithstanding that the individual had more than 50 prior criminal convictions, multiple outstanding charges, and numerous failures to appear, yet none of that information was brought to the attention of the justice of the peace at the bail application hearing.

Bill S-217 seeks to close this glaring loophole in the bail application process by requiring the crown to read evidence of past criminal convictions, outstanding charges, and failures to appear. There is no doubt in my mind that had Wynn's law been the law, Constable Wynn's killer would have remained behind bars where he belonged, and Constable Wynn would be alive today.

I urge this House to join the Senate in the speedy passage of this important legislation.

(Motion agreed to and bill read the first time)